The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-25


saving Nebraska ana KANSAS! Wny
the fate of Nebraska and Kansas was
sealed the first hour that Stephen Ar
mold Douglas consented to play his
perlidious part, "
June 16, 1854, few weeks before
the first colony was started for Kansas,
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgnson,
now of Cambridge, but then pastor OF
the Worcester Free church, said from
his pulpit: Here for instance, is the
Nebraska Emigration society. 1t is,
indeed, n noble enterprise and | am
proud that it owes its origin to Wor-
cester man. But where is the good of
emgrating to Nebraska if Nebraska is
to be only transplanted Massachusetts
and the original Massachusetts has
been tried and found wanting? viii
the stream rise higher than its source ?
Settle your Nebraska ten years, and you
VIII have your New England harvest of
corn and grain more luXuriant in that
virgin SOL. All, but will not the other
Massachusetts crop come also, of po-
ltical demagoguos and wre-pullers,
and q scctarian religion, which will in
sure the passage of the greatest hypo-
critic to heaven if he will join the right
church before he goesP And give the
emigrant twenty years more OF pros
perity and then ask them, if YOU dare,
to break the law and disturb order and
risk life merely to save their state from
the shame that has just blighted Mas
sachusetts.'
"lf anything further is needed TO sub
stantiate my charge that the old abo-
litioninsts were scccssionists. said Mr..
Thayer again, "herc is another resolu.
ton adopted by this same American
anti-slavcry society in 1859"
Where's, The dissolution Of the present i'm
perfect and inglorious union between the free
and slave states would result in the overthrow
OF slavery and the consequent foundation OF q
more perfect and gloriou. union without the
incubus Of slavery; therefore,
R.sorlG, That we invite II free correspond
cnce with the disunionists OF tS south in or
der to devise the most suitable ways and
means to secure the contamination so deyoutly
| to be wished for
Still turning over the pages of his
scrape-boo and talking with the lluen-
cy and ease of person who had the
whole history of ante-bcllum days and
the anti-slayery agitation at hi,
tongues end, the man whom Charles
Summer said the state of Kansas ought
to be named after, said that when Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, Henry War,
Beecher, and the ministers OF every
other religious denomination were Civ
ing cordial, hearty, and practical sup
port to the struggle for free labor with
in the limits of the constitution, those
never-could- e"satisiied abolitionsis I'M
der the lead of Garrison, May l6, 1886.
Resolved, That making all due allow
ance for exceptional cases, the Ameri-
can church continues to be the bulwarli
of American slavery, and, therefore,
impure in heart, hypocritical in pro-
fession, brutal in spirit, merciless in
purpose "a cage of unclean birds and
the synagogue of Satan
The interview closed with the re-
mark by the savior of Kansas that
for the truth of history The Giobc man
ought to ring up those old abolitionists
who now claim that they saved the
earth, and ask them to name one prac-
teal, common sense thing they ever did
to benefit humanity.